Chicago Sun Times: What if America Held an Election and Everyone Came? Universal Voting Would Be a Step in That Direction.

A new article in the Chicago Sun Times reviewing Universal Voting.

With the developments of the last two weeks, we now seem headed to a high-interest, high-turnout election. But even if we have turnout at our highest historical levels, the winner will likely take office with the votes of not much more than a third of all eligible voters.

We have had two record turnouts in recent elections: In the 2018 midterms, 50.1% of eligible voters participated, according to the US Elections Project at the University of Florida (turnout slipped back down to 45.9% in 2022.) The presidential election turnout in 2020 was 66%, reflecting major efforts by election officials of all parties during the pandemic to make voting easier and more accessible. Americans responded.

But this hardly gives us any bragging rights: The United States has long ranked toward the bottom half of developed democracies in voting participation.

Read the full article in the Chicago Sun Times here.